Open Access in Argentina National policies, international alignment Dra. Marisa De Giusti Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Member of the Committee of Experts of SNRD COAR-SPARC CONFERENCE Porto, April, 2015

researchers and technologists. (Ratio: 3 researchers per 1000 of the EAP Economically Active Population) Science Institutions of Argentina 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES 60 PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES 11 R+D National Institutions + CONICET (National Council of Research) NGOs + other civil foundations of Research

3 Starting diagnosis (2009) of publications and primary research data Partial or total ignorance of Institutions of what their own researchers are publishing. Dispersion of scientific data across the country. Lack of free access to what is published and its support on primary data. Absence of common criteria for data management in the scientific and academic community.  The need for a national vision on access to research outputs.

: Creation of Biological Data National System and Portal (SNDB) Main steps towards OA 2010: Creation of Sea Data National System (SNDM) Partnership of LA Repository network (LA Referencia) Membership of COAR Bill of Open Science presented to the National Congress 2011: Creation of Digital Repositories National System (SNRD) 2012: Launch of LA Referencia in Buenos Aires with 9 countries 2013: National Congress approved the Law Launch of SNRD’s Portal with D-NET support 2014: Creation of Genomical Data National System (SNDG) Working on Regulation of the Law 2015: Working on interoperability of disciplinary data portals, repositories & databases…

5 Guiding principles of OA policy Equity of Access to community & society Visibility of public funded science Accountability of scientific production cycle Efficient use of public resources National articulation to optimize decisions & investments in all Science fields

6 39 projects funded to create, improve or update databases and repositories to enable uploading and/or harvesting OA National Portals AR$ 5,4 M funds from Ministry of Science through the National Systems 9 Sea Data Centers (38 datasets) 31 Repositories ( full text documents) 48 Biological Data Centers (260 collections) Under construction

7 Current results of SNRD 40,000 full text documents available: Type

8 International support to build SNRD portal

9 Main issues of the Law Scientific Institutions: Create interoperables repositories with research results and outputs Researchers: Deposit articles, reports, communications and thesis (6 months) as well as primary data (5 years) in OA repositories. Financing Agencies: Funding research projects should include plans for releasing data and publications.

10 Pendings issues, current challenges Universal OA? Quality of OA publications and data? Access + Reusability of data? New roles of libraries and librarians to add value to OA literature + data? Sustainability of Repositories? Further training to researchers? New disciplinary arrangements concerning data and metadata formats? Linking reaserchers carreer to OA publication?

11 Some keys to OA success Political support: policies, institutional mandates, promotion of national networks and $$$ (not too much but enough) Training, advocacy, awareness campaigns, marketing, measuring effects and impact of repositories on researchers lives and work. Regional & International support: LA Referencia’s and COAR’s communities.

12 Questions? ¡Muchas Gracias! Obrigado! Thank you!